Cover changes

Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. Friends coverI Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when reprinted in the UK, as visitors to the Museum of Odd Peanuts Books should recall. Also scoring a new cover is ChristmasChristmas is Together Time cover is Together Time.

And while I have you here, let me remind you that just a few days remain to enter our contest and win yourself a set of Italian editions of The Complete Peanuts. We have some fine entries already, but we can always use more.

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On Peanuts and Gender

This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the sold-out Transpose Theatricals production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown in North Hollywood, California. The production featuring an all-trans and non-binary cast was a fun one, the cast brought great talent and a enthusiasm and really filled out their characters …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …

Upcoming releases
The one and only 75th anniversary book

Past Peanuts anniversaries have sometimes had several books waving the sign that this is an anniversary book, but this year, at least one book is proclaiming that it is the one and only Peanuts 75th Anniversary book. The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time will be a slipcased …